Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


The Time Hop Coffee Shop
The Bodyguard Affair
The Library of Fates
Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
All My Bones (An Old Juniper Bookshop Mystery, #2)
The Award
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
How to Grieve Like a Victorian: A funny, heartwarming love story
An Academic Affair
The Burning Library
The Forget-Me-Not Library
The Bookshop Below
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen's Unsung Characters
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Secret Christmas Library
The Ghostwriter
An Academic Affair
The Christmas Book Hunt
By Any Other Name
Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)
The Book Club Hotel
Any Trope but You
The Secret Book Society
The Bookstore Wedding (The Once Upon a Time Bookshop, #2)
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William JoyceThe Library by Sarah StewartThe Monster at the End of this Book by Jon StoneLibrary Lion by Michelle KnudsenThe Right Word by Jen Bryant
Picture Books for the Bookish
437 books — 101 voters

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Little Paris Bookshop by Nina GeorgeThe Giver of Stars by Jojo MoyesThe Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny ColganThe Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Traveling Libraries
115 books — 26 voters
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Books about Books and Libraries
824 books — 388 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84 Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books on Books: metacovers
385 books — 104 voters
Library Lion by Michelle KnudsenThe Library by Sarah StewartThe Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians by Carla  MorrisThe Library Dragon by Carmen Agra DeedyLibrary Mouse by Daniel Kirk
Picture Books about the Library!
247 books — 187 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Reading List
Book Lovers
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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